The aim of this paper is to present and briefly analyse the provisions of the recent (24 May 2018) European Commission's proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council, whose objective is to lay down a general framework for sovereign bond-backed securities (SBBSs). It is...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the macro-prudential tasks assigned to the ECB within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism' (SSM), which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in two (2) sections. Section 1 provides a general...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the power of the ECB to impose administrative penalties as a supervisory authority within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism', which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in three (3) sections....

On the basis of the European Commission’s 2015 Action Plan “on Building a Capital Markets Union” (CMU), as further specified in the 2017 “Mid-Term Review of the [CMU] Action Plan”, the European Parliament and the Council adopted on 27 November 2019 Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 “on...

The EU Taxonomy Regulation (TR), adopted in 2019, is a key milestone in defining legally sustainable activities. It should be viewed within the context of the climate and energy targets set by the EU for 2030 in order to become climate-neutral by 2050, and constitutes, along with the Sustainable...

The aim of the present University notes is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council “on Markets in Crypto-Assets (…)” (MiCAR), which was submitted on 24 September 2020. It is not...